Golden Door Award 2022 - International Institute of New England

The Golden Door Award has been an IINE tradition for more than 50 years. The honoree is an immigrant to the United States who has made outstanding contributions to American society.

The International Institute of New England is presenting this year’s Golden Door Award to Stéphane Bancel. It is fitting that in the middle of a global pandemic, we are honoring a scientist and global leader of a company devoted to helping patients fight rare diseases.

It is an occasion that calls us to stand together in celebration of the achievements of new Americans who have played an integral role in our community, economy, and society.

The award takes its name from Emma Lazarus’s words, which are inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty: “From her beacon hand glows world-wide welcome… I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

Honoring

Stéphane Bancel

CEO, Moderna

Friday June 3, 2022
Boston Park Plaza Ballroom

Our Mission

The International Institute of New England (IINE) creates opportunities for refugees and immigrants to succeed through resettlement, education, career advancement and pathways to citizenship.

Our History

Founded in 1918 in Lowell, Massachusetts as a community effort to welcome new Americans immigrating to the area, IINE today serves more than 3,000 refugees and immigrants annually, with programs in Boston, Lowell, and Manchester, NH.

Our Programs

Refugee Resettlement

IINE helps newly arrived refugees, special immigrant visa holders, and humanitarian evacuees during their first few months in the United States as they transition from insecurity to a supportive, healthy new beginning. Our team welcomes them at the airport, helps them to find a home and a job, registers children for school, enrolls families in health plans, and helps newcomers navigate a new community.

Family Reunification

IINE addresses one of the continent’s greatest challenges by reuniting unaccompanied children released from detention centers on the southern U.S border with family members or sponsors living in the United States. Based in Boston, this program is one of the largest of its kind in the region.

Immigrant Education and Workforce Preparation

Each year more than 1,500 immigrant adults enroll in our English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), Skills Training classes, and employment programs. We offer specialized training programs that prepare people for jobs in the healthcare and construction industries.

Immigration Legal Services

For people seeking work authorization, permanent resident status, citizenship, humanitarian parole for loved ones, family reunification, and much more, we provide trustworthy and affordable legal services.

The 2022 Golden Door Award Honoree

Stéphane Bancel

CEO, Moderna

Stéphane Bancel has served as Moderna’s Chief Executive Officer since October 2011, and as a member of Moderna’s Board of Directors since March 2011. Mr. Bancel has led Moderna’s incredible growth and overseen the development of the Covid-19 vaccine that has saved millions of lives around the world. Before joining Moderna, Mr. Bancel served for five years as Chief Executive Officer of the French diagnostics company bioMérieux SA. From July 2000 to March 2006, he served in various roles at Eli Lilly and Company, including as Managing Director, Belgium, and as Executive Director, Global Manufacturing Strategy and Supply Chain. Prior to Lilly, Mr. Bancel served as Asia-Pacific Sales and Marketing Director for bioMérieux. Mr. Bancel currently serves on the board of directors of Indigo. He is also a Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering. Born in Marseille, France, Mr. Bancel holds a Master of Engineering degree from École Centrale Paris (ECP), a Master of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Host Committee

Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D., Founder & CEO, Flagship Pioneering and Chairman, Moderna
Udit Batra, Ph.D., President & CEO, Waters Corporation 
Stephen Berenson, Managing Partner, Flagship Pioneering and Board Member, Moderna
 Stuart Cable, Partner & Vice Chairman, Goodwin, and Global Chair, M&A
 Marc N. Casper, Chairman, President & CEO, Thermo Fisher Scientific 
Marcello Damiani, Chief of Digital and Operational Excellence, Moderna 
Oliver Ewald, Event Chair, Managing Partner, Trellis Holdings 
Jim Foster, Chairman, President & CEO, Charles River Laboratories
 Linda Henry, CEO, Boston Globe Media
 Jean Hynes, CEO, Wellington Management 
Sandra J. Horning, M.D., Board Member, Moderna and Olema Pharmaceuticals 
Reshma Kewalramani, M.D., CEO & President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals 
Adam Koppel, M.D., Ph.D., Managing Director, Bain Capital Life Sciences 
Robert Langer, Ph.D., David H. Koch Institute Professor & Chemical Engineer, MIT, and Academic Co- Founder, Moderna 
Mark Levin, Partner & Co-Founder, Third Rock Ventures Stuart Levinson, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenCompany 
Margaret Low, Chief Executive Officer, WBUR 
Joel S. Marcus, Executive Chairman & Founder, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. / Alexandria Venture Investments 
John Maraganore, Ph.D., Former & Founding CEO, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals 
Theo Melas-Kyriazi, Executive Partner, Flagship Pioneering 
Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D., Executive Vice President for Strategy, ModeX Therapeutics, and Board of Directors, Moderna 
Francois Nader, M.D., Chair, Talaris and Benevolent AI, and Board Director, Moderna and Ring Andrew Plump, M.D., Ph.D., President, Research and Development, Takeda
 Paul Sagan, Senior Advisor, General Catalyst, and Board Member, Moderna and VMware Otello Stampacchia, Ph.D., Founder, Omega Funds
 Elizabeth Tallett, Director, Moderna and Chair of the Board, Anthem 
Michel Vounatsos, CEO, Biogen Elias Zerhouni, M.D., Former Director, National Institutes for Health (NIH), Co-Founder, ModeXTherapeutics

IINE Board of Directors

Avak Kahvejian, PhD, (Board Chair)
Christina Bai
Sam Épée-Bounya
Tuan Ha-Ngoc
Belinda Juran
William Krause
Shari Loessberg
Bopha Malone
Theo Melas-Kyriazi
Frederick Millham, M.D.
Nia Tatsis, Ph.D.
Deborah Shufrin
Jeff Thielman (President and CEO)

Past Golden Door Award Honorees

1970 – M. Pei
1971 – Arthur Fiedler
1972 – Anthony Athanas
1973 – Stephen P. Mugar
1974 – Gisela Wyzanski
1976 – Jean Mayer
1977 – Charles Maliotis
1978 – Humberto Sousa Cardinal Medeiros
1979 – Joseph Pellegrino
1980 – Laszlo J. Bonis
1981 – Gerhard Neumann
1982 – An Wang
1983 – John D. Constable
1985 – Jill Ker Conway

1986 – Thomas J. Flatley
1987 – Arthur Loeb
1988 – Yo-Yo Ma
1989 – Bernard Lown
1992 – Farouk El-Baz
1994 – Charles L. Schepens
1996 – George N. Hatsopoulos
1998 – Lelio “Les” Marino
1999 – Henri A. Termeer
2001 – Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande
2002 – Orit Gadiesh
2004 – Gabriel Schmergel
2004 – Alex d’Arbeloff

2005 – Victor Dzau
2006 – Kenan E. Sahin
2007 – Benjamin Zander
2008 – Mike Lowell
2011 – Deborah Dunsire
2013 – The Honorable Margaret Marshall
2014 – Omid Farokhzad
2016 – Claudio Del Vecchio
2017 – Noubar Afeyan
2018 – L. Rafael Reif
2019 – Joseph Aoun
2021 – Reshma Kewalramani, M.D.
2022 – Stéphane Bancel